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Signs You Are Addicted To The Cranberries
  1. When you walk by a record store and you have to go in to check the Cranberries section to see if anything new has come in.
  2. When you buy doubles, triples, and quadruples of certain releases by the Cranberries because they are harder to find.
  3. When you don't know the colour of your wall anymore because it is plastered with Cranberries posters.
  4. When your computer hard-drive is almost full of cranberries files that you cannot save a report.
  5. When you go to see the Cranberries in concert 4 times in two weeks.
  6. When you need extra storage space, for all your memorobilia
  7. When you put up a Cranberries site on the Internet, despite the fact that there are so many out there and the ideas are no longer original.
  8. When you own more than one copy of each album because you have copies released from other countries like Japan or Australia.
  9. When you know all the words to most of the songs...as well as the improvised add in on live tracks (eg. "hey hey hey" for Ridiculous Thoughts)
  10. When you watch MTV or Much Music constantly with your VCR set, so you can catch anything that is Cranberries related.
  11. When your long distance bill consists of phone calls made to otehr fans across the country or tomail order services, so you can get the latest and rarest releases.
  12. When you are familiar with all the artists around the Cranberries in the rack (ie Sarah Craid, the Cramps, the Cranes)
  13. When you subconsciously use Cranberries lyrics or quotes in everyday conversation
  14. When you spend 90% of the money you make on cranberries stuff
  15. When you moan "Cranberries" instead of his name
  16. When you cut your hair like Dolores and start playing the guitar ...and are now obsessed with starting your own band
  17. When friends don't even bother asking what music you're listening to
  18. When your life long goal is to find "Water Circles"
  19. When you continually switch radio stations in the car hoping to find a Cranberries tune, even though it's only a ten minute ride.
  20. When you hear a word like "salvation", "ridiculous", etc, and immediately start singing the related song in your head.
  21. When you can yodel just like Dolores.
  22. When the only soap you buy is Irish spring and think of Dolores everytime you smell it
  23. When you're playing a rare cranberries song and you're convinced that people are thinking "where'd he find that Cranberries song??"
  24. When you celebrate their birthdays.
  25. When you get all excited about an ad for Irish Tourism because 'Dreams' is used for the audio.
  26. When you spend 150 dollars to buy one, four song album.
  27. When you buy cranberry juice just because you like the name
  28. When you are more involved with Zombie being played on the radio than you are about trying to listen to a very important conversation.
  29. When you change your hair colour and pierce your ears to look like Dolores... and you ARE A GUY
  30. When you have dreams of the Cranberries
  31. When you get up at 4 am, and manage to miss a day of school, just to get concert tickets.
  32. When you walk up to the counter at HMV and before you say anything the lady tells you whether or not there are any new Cranberries releases
  33. When as soon as someone mentions the Cranberries, or sings a line of a Cranberries song, you go spastic.
  34. When you hear one Cranberries song in the morning, and you're humming the rest of the album throughout that day.
  35. When your friends moan everytime you mention the Cranberries because they're so sick of hearing about them
  36. When you stop being friends with someone because they don't like the cranberries.
  37. When you mention the cranberries over five times every day
  38. When the outgoing message on your answering machine begins with “Hello, we are the cranberries” and ends with “That was it, we had to go home”, from “Doors and Windows”
  39. When your heart rate increases ten fold (sudden proxysmal tachycardia) whenever you hear a Cranberries song that you didn’t put on yourself, or overhear someone talking about the Cranberries.
  40. When your friends call you Dolores, even in spite of you're a guy
  41. When you empty your trash your computer plays "Emptyyyy"


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